In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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I cannot live without books.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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